This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the Second XP Universe and First Agile Universe Conference, XP/Agile Universe 2002, held in Chicago, IL, USA in August 2002.The 27 revised full papers presented together with tutorial abstracts, workshop summaries and panel statements were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on methods and support tools, introducing extreme programming and agile methods, experience reports, testing, empirical studies, pair programming, and educational issues.

XPAgileUniverse2003isthethirdconferenceinaseriesrunninginNorthA- rica and attracting participants from all over the world who are interested in the research, development and application of agile software processes. Agile app- aches value people and interaction over processes and tools - moving software engineering from the process-oriented software development approaches of the 1990s towards people-oriented approaches that we are starting to see more and more in this decade. Agile approaches stress a holistic view of software deve- pers as being involved in analysis, design, implementation and testing activities, while more traditional, tayloristic approaches separate these tasks and assign them to di?erent "resources. " Tayloristic approaches create knowledge-sharing problems as information gathered by one person needs to be handed over - usually in the form of documentation - to the next person in the chain. Agile approaches reduce the number of hand-o?s and, thus, decrease the amount of required documentation for knowledge sharing. While deemed a novelty only a few years ago, agile methods are now be- ming established in the software industry and are being applied in more and more application domains. While agile approaches move into the mainstream of software organizations, we are only now beginning to understand their bene?ts, areas of applicability, and also their dangers. This year's conference will increase this understanding and provide a better base for industry practitioners as they assess the e?ectiveness of agile methods in their environment.

Compares the introduction of Quality of Work Life programs in two different factories, and argues that these programs undermine worker solidarity and weaken unions.

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